Cardas Audio Clear Headphone Cable for Sennheiser HD800 Headphones

What You Need to Know

This cable replaces the stock cable on your Sennheiser HD800. It uses the same wire as Cardas's top Clear cables. The copper is 99.9999% pure. Every tiny strand is coated on its own, then wound around a Kevlar core. Left and right get their own separate cable, which suits the HD800 well, since the headphone already takes a plug at each ear. Air-filled tubes hold the wires in place, and a shield wraps each run to keep noise out.

The plugs matter just as much as the wire. On the amp end you get a Cardas 1/4" plug, machined from solid brass and plated with rhodium over silver. Rhodium is very hard and does not tarnish, so the contact stays clean for years. The metal is non-magnetic. Cardas even sells these same plugs to other cable builders. On the headphone end are locking Sennheiser-style plugs that twist into place and stay put. They fit the HD800, HD800 S, and HD820. Swapping cables takes about ten seconds. The soft jacket stays quiet when you move it. Pick a length from 1.5 to 6.0 meters. Cardas builds each one by hand in Oregon, backed for life.

Features & Specifications

Cardas Clear Wire — The same wire Cardas puts in its top Clear cables, wound the way George Cardas designed it.

Top-Grade Copper — The copper is 99.9999% pure, and each thin strand gets its own coating.

One Cable Per Ear — Left and right run on their own separate cables from the amp to the headphone.

Cardas Rhodium Plug — Cardas makes its own 1/4" plug from solid brass and plates it in rhodium over silver.

Built for the HD800 — Locking Sennheiser-style plugs fit the HD800, HD800 S, and HD820.

Specifications

• Type: Replacement headphone cable, Cardas Clear series
• Fits: Sennheiser HD800, HD800 S, HD820
• Conductors: Matched Propagation Kevlar core, Grade 1 99.9999% pure oxygen-free copper with SPN clear coat (Litz), gauge sizes scaled to Golden Ratio proportions
• Gauge: 8x26.5 AWG per run
• Construction: Dual mono twisted pair conductors with anti-static LDPE air-tubes, bound with carbon-impregnated PTFE tape wrap
• Shield: Composite shield suspended by an outer layer of PTFE air-tubes scaled 1.618 times larger than the core tubes
• Jacket: Ultra-soft extruded TPR
• Outside diameter: 0.170" / 4.31mm per run
• Terminations: Cardas 1/4" (6.35mm) stereo male plug to dual Sennheiser HD800-type locking connectors
• Connectors: Cardas GRQ-series phone plug — machined eutectic brass, rhodium-over-silver plate, non-magnetic
• Lengths available: 1.5m to 4.5m
• Assembly: Hand-built in Bandon, Oregon, USA
• Warranty: Cardas lifetime warranty against bad or intermittent internal connections, shorts, and loose connectors; warranty service must be performed by Cardas
• Sold By: Each

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